'Hole' definitions:
Definition of 'hole'
From: WordNet
noun
An opening into or through something
noun
An opening deliberately made in or through something
noun
One playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course; "he played 18 holes" [syn: hole, golf hole]
noun
An unoccupied space
noun
A depression hollowed out of solid matter [syn: hole, hollow]
noun
A fault; "he shot holes in my argument"
noun
Informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish]
noun
verb
Hit the ball into the hole [syn: hole, hole out]
verb
Make holes in
Definition of 'Hole'
From: GCIDE
- Hole \Hole\ (h[=o]l), a. Whole. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hole'
From: GCIDE
- Hole \Hole\ (h[=o]l), n. [OE. hol, hole, AS. hol, hole, cavern, from hol, a., hollow; akin to D. hol, OHG. hol, G. hohl, Dan. huul hollow, hul hole, Sw. h[*a]l, Icel. hola; prob. from the root of AS. helan to conceal. See Hele, Hell, and cf. Hold of a ship.]
- 1. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure. [1913 Webster]
- The holes where eyes should be. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The blind walls Were full of chinks and holes. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid. --2 Kings xii. 9. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- The foxes have holes, . . . but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. --Luke ix. 58.
- 3. (Games) (a) A small cavity used in some games, usually one into which a marble or ball is to be played or driven; hence, a score made by playing a marble or ball into such a hole, as in golf. (b) (Fives) At Eton College, England, that part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Syn: Hollow; concavity; aperture; rent; fissure; crevice; orifice; interstice; perforation; excavation; pit; cave; den; cell. [1913 Webster]
- Hole and corner, clandestine, underhand. [Colloq.] "The wretched trickery of hole and corner buffery." --Dickens.
- Hole board (Fancy Weaving), a board having holes through which cords pass which lift certain warp threads; -- called also compass board. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hole'
From: GCIDE
- Hole \Hole\, v. t. [AS. holian. See Hole, n.]
- 1. To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hole'
From: GCIDE
- Hole \Hole\, v. i. To go or get into a hole. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hole'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abode,
- abri,
- abysm,
- abyss,
- aerospace,
- aerosphere,
- air hole,
- air pocket,
- airspace,
- alveolation,
- alveolus,
- antre,
- antrum,
- aperture,
- area,
- armpit,
- arroyo,
- asylum,
- Augean stables,
- auger,
- Babylon,
- basement,
- basin,
- bearings,
- bench mark,
- bind,
- bite,
- blemish,
- blind alley,
- bolt-hole,
- booth,
- bordello,
- bore,
- bowl,
- box,
- box canyon,
- breach,
- break,
- brig,
- broach,
- broaching,
- brothel,
- bug,
- bump,
- bunker,
- burrow,
- cache,
- cage,
- canyon,
- CAT,
- catch,
- catch-22,
- cathouse,
- cave,
- cavern,
- cavity,
- ceiling,
- cell,
- cellar,
- cellarage,
- cellule,
- chamber,
- chap,
- chasm,
- check,
- chimney,
- chink,
- clearing,
- cleft,
- cleuch,
- clip joint,
- clough,
- coal bin,
- col,
- compartment,
- concave,
- concavity,
- concealment,
- corner,
- couch,
- coulee,
- couloir,
- countersink,
- cove,
- cover,
- covert,
- coverture,
- crack,
- cranny,
- crater,
- crevasse,
- crevice,
- crib,
- crosswind,
- crypt,
- cubby,
- cubbyhole,
- cul-de-sac,
- cup,
- cut,
- cwm,
- cyclone cellar,
- dark corner,
- dead end,
- dead-end street,
- deadlock,
- deep,
- defect,
- defection,
- deficiency,
- defile,
- dell,
- den,
- den of iniquity,
- den of thieves,
- dent,
- depression,
- depth,
- difficulty,
- dike,
- dilemma,
- dip,
- disclosure,
- discontinuity,
- discrepancy,
- disrupt,
- district,
- ditch,
- dive,
- doghouse,
- donga,
- donjon,
- draw,
- drawback,
- drill,
- dugout,
- dump,
- dungeon,
- earth,
- empierce,
- emplacement,
- empty space,
- enclosed space,
- error,
- excavation,
- extremity,
- failing,
- failure,
- fallacy,
- fault,
- faute,
- favorable wind,
- fenestra,
- fissure,
- fistula,
- fix,
- flaw,
- fleshpots,
- flume,
- fog,
- foible,
- fold,
- follicle,
- fontanel,
- foramen,
- form,
- foxhole,
- fracture,
- frailty,
- front,
- funk hole,
- funnel chest,
- furrow,
- gap,
- gape,
- gash,
- gat,
- goal,
- Gomorrah,
- gore,
- gorge,
- gouge,
- gouge out,
- grand slam,
- groove,
- grot,
- grotto,
- gulch,
- gulf,
- gully,
- gyp joint,
- halt,
- head wind,
- hellhole,
- hiatus,
- hideaway,
- hideout,
- hidey hole,
- hiding,
- hiding place,
- high-pressure area,
- hit,
- hold,
- hole in one,
- hollow,
- hollow shell,
- home run,
- homer,
- honeycomb,
- hot water,
- hovel,
- hut,
- impale,
- impasse,
- imperfection,
- impression,
- inadequacy,
- incision,
- inconsistency,
- indentation,
- infirmity,
- inlet,
- interstice,
- interval,
- ionosphere,
- jail,
- jetstream,
- joint,
- keep,
- kink,
- kloof,
- lacuna,
- lair,
- lance,
- latitude and longitude,
- laying open,
- leak,
- lieu,
- little problem,
- locale,
- locality,
- location,
- locus,
- lodge,
- loophole,
- low-pressure area,
- manger,
- mess,
- mew,
- mistake,
- moat,
- muddle,
- needle,
- niche,
- nook,
- notch,
- nullah,
- open,
- opening,
- opening up,
- orifice,
- oubliette,
- outlet,
- overcast,
- pass,
- passage,
- passageway,
- penetrate,
- perforate,
- perforation,
- pesthole,
- pew,
- pickle,
- pierce,
- pigeonhole,
- pigpen,
- pigsty,
- pinch,
- pink,
- pinpoint,
- pit,
- place,
- placement,
- plague spot,
- playhouse,
- plight,
- pocket,
- point,
- pore,
- position,
- potato cellar,
- predicament,
- prick,
- prison,
- problem,
- punch,
- punch bowl,
- puncture,
- ravine,
- ream,
- ream out,
- recess,
- refuge,
- region,
- rent,
- retreat,
- riddle,
- rift,
- rime,
- rip,
- rookery,
- roughness,
- run,
- run through,
- rupture,
- sanctuary,
- scissure,
- scoop,
- score,
- scrape,
- seam,
- secret place,
- sewer,
- shack,
- shaft,
- shanty,
- shell,
- shortcoming,
- sink,
- sink of corruption,
- sinus,
- site,
- situation,
- situs,
- skewer,
- slam,
- slit,
- slot,
- slum,
- snag,
- socket,
- Sodom,
- something missing,
- soup,
- space,
- spear,
- spike,
- spit,
- split,
- sporting house,
- spot,
- stab,
- stable,
- stalemate,
- stall,
- stand,
- standstill,
- stash,
- stead,
- stews,
- stick,
- stoma,
- stop,
- storm cellar,
- stratosphere,
- strike,
- sty,
- subbasement,
- substratosphere,
- subterrane,
- subway,
- tail wind,
- taint,
- tap,
- tear,
- tenement,
- the slums,
- throwing open,
- tight spot,
- tight squeeze,
- touchdown,
- transfix,
- transpierce,
- trench,
- trepan,
- trephine,
- tropopause,
- troposphere,
- trouble,
- trough,
- tumbledown shack,
- tunnel,
- turbulence,
- uncorking,
- undercovert,
- unstopping,
- vacancy,
- vacuity,
- vacuum,
- valley,
- vault,
- vent,
- visibility,
- visibility zero,
- void,
- vug,
- vulnerable place,
- wadi,
- warren,
- weak link,
- weak point,
- weakness,
- well,
- whereabout,
- whereabouts,
- whorehouse,
- wine cellar,
- yawn,
- yawning abyss
Words containing 'Hole'
- Holing,
- hole out,
- hole up,
- Blast hole,
- Chuck hole,
- Cradle hole,
- Eyelet hole,
- Floss hole,
- Fuse hole,
- Gammoning hole,
- Glory hole,
- Gully hole,
- Hole and corner,
- Hole board,
- Hole in the air,
- Judas hole,
- Lewis hole,
- Lubber's hole,
- Nose hole,
- Peeping hole,
- Pigeon hole,
- Pin hole,
- Post hole,
- Sheave hole,
- Sink hole,
- Sludge hole,
- Spile hole,
- Starting hole,
- Stay holes,
- Woods Hole,
- ace in the hole,
- air hole,
- black hole,
- bolt hole,
- bullet hole,
- button hole,
- drill hole,
- ear hole,
- finger hole,
- fox hole,
- funk hole,
- golf hole,
- gopher hole,
- hole card,
- hole in the wall,
- kettle hole,
- mouth hole,
- nail hole,
- ozone hole,
- placket hole,
- rabbit hole,
- scupper hole,
- shot hole,
- smoke hole,
- sound hole,
- swallow hole,
- swimming hole,
- water hole,
- watering hole,
- Black Hole of Calcutta,
- Cat-hole,
- Pit-hole,
- Sight-hole,
- Teaze-hole,
- To come in at the hawse holes,
- Woods Hole, MA,
- bolt-hole,
- bore-hole,
- hand-hole,
- high-hole,
- hole-and-corner,
- hole-in-corner,
- hole-in-the-wall,
- toad-in-the-hole,
- top-hole,
- vent-hole,
- winkle-hole,
- Hand-hole plate,
- Pin-hole pupil,
- post-hole digger